If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ‘sex’ is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.

— Judith Butler Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990)

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